Policies and Economics of Digital Multimedia Transmission

Executive Summary

There are different Standards of digital multimedia transmission, for example DVB in Europe and ISDB in Japan and DMB in Korea, with different delivery system (example MPEG-2, MPEG-4).This paper describe an overview of Digital Multimedia Transmission (DMT) technologies. The economic aspects of digital content & software solution industry as a strategic key in the future will be discussed. The paper then focuses on some important policy and technology issues, such S-DMB, T-DMB, Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld (DVB-H) and concludes DMT policies for convergence of telecommunications and broadcasting.